Get the name of a function

[Grant Edwards]

On 2011-08-05, gervaz <gervaz at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all, is there a way to retrive the function name like with
> self.__class__.__name__?

Not really.  There may not be any such thing as "the function name". A
function may have zero names, it may have a dozen names.  It may have
names but only in namespaces that aren't accessible.

This question comes up at least once a month, so look back through the
group for threads about finding an object's name, finding a
parameter's name, etc.

Here's a nice article on introspection, but what it talks about as a
"function name" probably isn't what you're interested in:

  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-pyint/index.html

Here's a stack-overflow question similar to yours:

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1538342/how-can-i-get-the-name-of-an-object-in-python

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